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The Belle Brigade is a band from Los Angeles consisting of siblings Ethan and Barbara Gruska. Inspired by Barbara and Ethan’s love for Fleetwood Mac, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, and Stevie Wonder, the album’s artfully arranged, freewheeling songs brim with breezy, California melodies and bracing pop harmonies, fueled by the driving rhythms Barbara plays on drums. A longtime fixture on the Los Angeles music scene, Barbara is a sought-after live drummer who toured with Inara George and Jenny Lewis, among others, before she picked up a guitar and formed The Belle Brigade with her singer-songwriter younger brother Ethan two years ago.
Billy Eli plays country that rocks and rock that’s country, delivering songs that are vivid slices of real life lived to the fullest and chased down with a stiff shot of whiskey. With a style that’s rooted in his small town Southeast Texas origins that transcends the Lone Star State to achieve an international reach, the Austin, TX-based singer and songwriter has been compared by critics to such stellar American music artists as Tom Petty, Steve Earle, John Prine and John Mellencamp, to name a few. Brandon Jenkins
With a voice as big as
Texas and guitar chops (and
beard) that would make Billy
Gibbons proud, Jenkins takes
his rightful place as one of the
shining stars of not only Red Dirt, but American music. “I’ve always thought
Red Dirt was less about a
sound, and more about a
brotherhood of musicians with
a common goal; not only to
make music, but music with a
message,” says Jenkins. “Bob
Childers, Jimmy LaFave, Tom
Skinner, The Great Divide and
so many others have helped
to shape and form this rapidly
growing genre, bringing in the
convictions of Woody Guthrie,
and the swank and swagger of
the Outlaw Country and
Southern Rock movements”.